The Mule

In chapter 6 we are introduced to Matt Bonner's mule. HIs mule is very skinny and is always getting lost. One day the mule gets lost again and some townspeople find it and start messing around with the poor animal. When Janie sees the townspeople poking fun at the mule she becomes very upset. Janie relates to the mule in that way that she has to work all day in the store and then come home and be lonely. The mule has to work in the fields all day and be mistreated and unsupervised by his master for the rest of the evening. When Jody finds out that Janie is so passionate about the mule he decides to buy it for Janie in order to make her happy. Janie starts to really love the animal because of how much they are the same, they both don't have a "big voice" let alone a voice at all. SHe stands up for the mule because of how much similar they are and she doesn't feel that anyone should be put down or controlled by others.